- Sunday, February 23, 2025
SIMONE ASHLEY, renowned for her role as Kate Sharma in Netflix’s hit series Bridgerton, has stepped forward to defend her co-star Nicola Coughlan amidst recent instances of body-shaming directed towards the actress. According to The Hollywood Reporter, at an event, Ashley addressed the criticisms aimed at Coughlan, who portrays Penelope…
“WE are now man and wife,” longtime actor couple Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal said on Sunday after their low-key ceremony in the presence of family and close friends. Sonakshi, 37, and Zaheer, 35, wed in a civil marriage at the Heeramandi star’s sea-facing Bandra West apartment with the blessings…
AN Asian restaurant in London risks losing its licence for employing illegal workers, according to media reports. Gana Restaurant, a Sri Lankan and South Indian restaurant on Ealing Road in Wembley was raided by Home Office personnel last September and five out of six employees were found working illegally, Harrow…
INDIAN actor Shilpa Shetty made a return to Leicester to support the candidacy of Keith Vaz, who is running for Leicester East parliament seat for a ninth time. Shetty, the star of many Bollywood movies, came to Leicester to meet with supporters of Vaz and members of the public. The…
Prime minister Rishi Sunak visited the Sri Kutchh Satsang Swaminarayan Temple in Kenton, northwest London, on Sunday with former MP Bob Blackman and other leaders. Swami Shri Madhavapriyadas and Santavallabhdas honoured Sunak with garlands, as he accepted an invitation to the ‘Vadtal Sri Lakshminarayan Dev Bicentenary Mahotsav.’ Sunak received a…
The much-talked-about film Monkey Man, starring the acclaimed actor Dev Patel, has hit a significant roadblock in India. The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), India’s official film certification body, has “thwarted its release without formally banning it” by not screening the film for the advisory panel. The film was…
INDIA’S domestic airline market has registered robust growth in the last decade, and it is now the third-largest in the world, up from the fifth position a decade ago, according to global travel data provider OAG. In its 2014 survey of large domestic aviation markets, India figured fifth on the…
LAW firm Ashurst has named two new co-heads for its India market, which is of ‘key strategic focus’ for the London-headquartered company. The two co-heads, Kalpana Unadkat and Shishir Mehta, will be based in London and work alongside Ashurst’s core India team to increase its presence in the country, The…
KOZHIKODE, a coastal town in Kerala state, was on Sunday officially declared as India’s first UNESCO ‘City of Literature’. In October 2023, Kozhikode had earned a place in the ‘Literature’ category of the Unesco Creative Cities Network (UCCN). The state minister, M B Rajesh, on Sunday in an official event…
A SCHOOLBOY from south-west England has become the first person in the world with severe epilepsy to trial a new device fitted in his skull to control seizures. The neurostimulator, which sends electrical signals deep into his brain, has reduced Oran Knowlson’s daytime seizures by 80 per cent. The surgery…
